FBI: 5,000 porn images found with suspect

Published 12:00 am, Monday, March 15, 2010

A 63-year-old man from Pearland was charged last week with six counts of producing, possessing and attempting to distribute child pornography.

William Scott Nelson is being held in federal custody without bail until his trial, which is set to begin on April 26. An officer with the Houston Police Department’s Juvenile Sex Crimes Unit found 74 files of child pornography on his computer, according to authorities. Authorities also recovered additional hard drives, a digital camera, magazines with photographs of nude children and slides of nude girls, according to the FBI.

“The majority of the 5,000 images and hundreds of videos were found on a desktop with an external hard drive attached and a second loose hard drive, which included prepubescent females,” according to the FBI’s statement. If convicted, Nelson faces a minimum 15-year sentence for each count of producing child pornography. Possession and attempted distribution convictions carry five- to 20-year sentences.